Motivation of the cosplay players with different experience of participation in this type of role-playing games

ART 14115

UDK 159.923

Authors:

Natalya Kulagina,

Marina Ovchinnikova

Abstract. The authors describe the problem of development of new youth subculture “cosplay” and the new term, present the results of the primary empirical studies of the peculiarities of motivation of participants of cosplay.

Keywords: motivation, cosplay, the need for sensations, subculture, role-playing games